Cobb County State Court Judge Maria B. Golick stepped onto the bench on a recent afternoon with her usual pleasant greeting and began hearing a motion for summary judgment in a case involving a dispute over what caused a man to fall in the yard of a homeowner who had hired him to spread mulch and whether or not the beer he had before coming to work at 8 a.m. should be allowed into evidence.
She focused intently on the details. She let the defense attorney know when he began reading the opinions from cases cited in his brief that she had read them and reviewed them, but that he was welcome to read them into the record again if he wanted. He did. She let the plaintiff’s attorney know when he cited a letter in support of his case that the letter had not been attached to his brief and was not in the record. This being news to the attorney, he began a search for the letter to submit into evidence.
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